Henry, Duke of Gloucester







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Henry, Duke of Gloucester
by George Vertue, after Unknown artist
line engraving, 1736
11 3/8 in. x 7 1/4 in. (290 mm x 184 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D29328
Sitterback to top
- Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1640-1660), Third son of Charles I. Sitter associated with 19 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Unknown artist, Artist. Artist associated with 6555 portraits.
- George Vertue (1683-1756), Engraver and antiquary. Artist associated with 864 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
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Frederick, Prince of Wales marries Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.Porteous Riots in Edinburgh after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson. Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire into the mob, causing six deaths. He is found guilty of murder, dragged from his cell, beaten and hung to death by a mob.
Repeal of laws against witchcraft.
Gin Act attempts to curtail consumption of gin.
Art and science
Posthumous publication of Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions, describing his method of differential calculus.One of the earliest recorded uses of a Bathing Machine at Scarborough.
International
Methodist preachers John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia.Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates the throne.
Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's little theorem concerning prime numbers.
Charles Marie de La Condamine and François Fresneau Gataudière make the first scientific observations of rubber in Ecuador.
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